martin j. martin quite frankly i'm really surprised by these developments why saudi arabia and kuwait started warning their citizens to leave lebanon. ok looks like we may have lost the connection with martin and we was able to hear me just a few moments ago just try again following saudis lead him in kuwait is very subservient to saudi arabia and what we're seeing now what we're actually witnessing since the weekend. yeah i apologize martin it seems like we've got some problems or horrific time to let you go ahead. ok we will be goodbye. to the that we have a new saudi king emerging mohammed bin solomon the crown prince is now really preparing the ground to take the leadership. ok and we will we will wrap things up there is pretty clear to me that we had an extremely lengthy time delay for if you did know that in advance of drug it mountainbike or at least have a chat with him off air bring his thoughts to you a little later short break now in a moment. to . think you're new to the game this is how it works and the economy is built around corporate corporations from washington to washington to meet. the media. voters elected to business to run this country business because. it's not busin

martin j. martin quite frankly i'm really surprised by these developments why saudi arabia and kuwait started warning their citizens to leave lebanon. ok looks like we may have lost the connection with martin and we was able to hear me just a few moments ago but just try again following saturday's lead in.

martin j. is live on the program hi martin what indeed is the latest on this diplomatic row and what could result from it do you think. well at the moment we just don't know we're waiting to see in the next day or possibly couple of days with mr hariri will actually follow through on what he saw on television just a couple of days ago that he would return to beirut very shortly in the next couple of days so a lot of a number of pundits are wondering whether that means friday or saturday or it it means a more looser interpretation of the phrase we're possibly looking at next week i think elm present allen's comments today are a sort of reaction from the lebanese president who hasn't really been able to do too much in the last few days with this this this drama which has been erupting in lebanon because most of the limelight has been stolen from him by that has been a leader hassan nasrallah so i think every now who point to whether he comes back at the weekend on sunday it is an important league meeting that may well be a milestone when he comes but before then a lot of the day so just of the way to see i think thanks for the update for beirut's based journalist martin thank you for that. you might think rescuing a small child from living in a sewer would be seen as commendable but if it's a refugee being help the european union regards that as criminal that story next after the break. welcome back to the program a report from a u.k. based think tank claims the european union is effectively making criminals ot of those volunteering to help refugees by classifying their humanitarian actions trafficking or smuggling well one of the volunteers mentioned in the report is a fifty year old former british soldier rob laurie he hit the headlines back in january twenty sixth seen when french authorities rounded on him for trying to help a four year old and her father illegally cross into the u.k. now they were living in a sewer pipe of the notorious col a jungle camp. they were discovered by mr lehrer he told us the story two years ago i went over to help. in in france the notorious jungle and i was building shelters there. and i befriended a young afghan gi

martin j. he's a middle east analyst good evening to you martin firstly what's what are your thoughts on the fact that it was a mosque that was targeted. well i think it's it's interesting and it's significant that mosques may well be know a future trend in egypt or or in the in the sinai province if we look at the bigger picture of the middle east you just touched on it. most have been the target for i saw affiliated groups in afghanistan for a number of months last year of their targeted number of shia mosques in a number of cities across the country that was very much sure which works on a number of levels but principally that i saw doesn't tolerate any alternative strand of islam of tall i think this particular mosque in the sinai which was known to be a supporter of. susie's cc's crackdown on terrorism that probably put it in the following line but as you touched on earlier that is some is an alternative strand of islam and i think there was another statement so a double whammy of four for i saw or i still feel or two groups and so i know we'll have to wait and see whether that program extends itself but we did see of course earlier before the the coptic christian atos well so it's not a good sign is a no is it fair to assume it was i saw the authorities say they saw and i saw the flag but nobody's claimed responsibility yet have they. no i mean it it may well we can't say for sure if it was ice but those groups that operate in that area of are quite well aligned if not a hand in glove with the ideology so we can't actually pin it on ice so yet we have normally any statements from them to confirm it one way or the other that may will just be a public relations failure we'll have to wait and soon sure and in terms of the response we've seen from the authorities is there anything more they can do should we just expect them to target more terrorist locations. well i think they will be doing a lot more i mean sisi has said that he's going to up the campaign and i think he's of all the regions leaders who has a real axe to grind to grind against these extremist groups in this particular example in the sinai egypt really i mean egypt's president really does want to have . an unprecedented crackdown he took delivery of ten apache helicopters in two thousand and fourteen just for this job alone i think in the coming days and weeks you'll see various signals to washington that we need more military to combat this but you know there are some other issues going on i think he's he's taking quite an intelligent approach to this what we didn't see in syria or iraq were countries and governments recognizing the importance of poverty and how poverty drives terrorism and many of these people who join up with these groups are extremely poor a literally battling every day just to eat and what sisi is probably going to do the next few days is push forward a campaign that he's talked about before about bringing development and money and supports into this signing area so a lot of these groups these bedwyn groups which are targeted by these extremists you know to have an alternative and rather than just join up i saw and other extremist groups they go they can look forward to being part of the egyptian economy which is always their complaint when you go right back to two thousand and eleven when they really started the violent campaign when sisi was intelligence chief and later in two thousand and thirteen we had the morsy overthrow the argument then was these people are forgotten they've been abandoned and so we can't really expect much more from them so we we we will see a much more intelligent a more focused campaign to deal with this terrorism of the root cause and also i think the interruption government are working very closely with israel and they'll put a lot of pressure on hamas now to not have anything to do with this group there are still a few tunnels in operation in terms of transporting of arms and hamas will also be on the radar right ok martin always good to get your thoughts we'll have to leave it there for now that was middle. east analyst martin j. thank you. another nice to have president putin has signed amendments to a bill that will require some media outlets to register as foreign agents in russia it does come in response to similar news again starting america in the u.s. in the one custody joins us now with a few more details that i just fill it in then what this means well a similar moves and a similar law that allowed the russian law is similar to that of the united states the american foreign agents for just ration or farah and basically it requires the outlets to disclose the details of their activity and also financial information now this is in response to washington's spends all their law against it see america who were forced to register as a foreign agent just last week after months of pressure from washington our channel was accused of serving as. russian influence in the presidential 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martin luther king jr. areflects then, j edgar hoover and his suspects with dr. martin luther king. the dossier released today shows documents -- >> among 600 documents released today by the ar chives is this one, a never before seen file titled martinher king jr., a current analysis. in 1968, includes explosives analysis about the leader who was exposed 23 days. martin luther king jr. was involved in extramarital affairs and other sexual activities that if true publicly would have been devastated to him and his moment. there are pages and pages details him and his organization. with alleged ties to kmun insist and finally details about proprieties of dr. martin luther king. i want to stress the fbi under j edgar hoover at the time had been investigating him for years at this point in the hopes of finding damaging information and we have no way of corroborating this investigation. >> what does this have to do with the assassination of jfk? >> that's one of many questions we have tonight, anderson. considering the document has no mention of john f. kennedy or his assassination. the only clue we have is its stamped, reviewed by the fbi task force and sedated may 8, 1984. it was reviewed 23 years ago but kept secret until today. >> the

martin luther king. martin luther king was assassinated on april 4th, 1968 in body, but also assassinated in character by the director of the fbi, j. edgar hoover, so the release of this scurrilous, rumor-filled document in 2017 by the administration of donald j. trump aids and abets the character assassination of dr. martins no rationale, no reason for this. historians agree as a matter of course that the fbi director engaged in a sustained campaign to take down, if you will, the character of the reverend dr. martin luther king, and for us -- for this administration to release these documents, rather this document, having nothing to do with the assassination of president john f. kennedy is unconscionable. >> i get your point. these are historic documents, they are part of a public record. at some point they would have had to come forward. you're saying it should have just been withheld by the government then? >> let's be clear. the national archives recommended back in 1984, or decided in 1984, that the document should not be released at all. it doesn't contribute in any way to our historical understanding of the assassination of president kennedy. it certainly does not add anything to our understanding of the contribution, the service, the sacrifice of the reverend dr. martin luther king. why? because m